Immunization - Pediatric Immunization News

• COVID Vax Prevents Death in Children Regardless of Variant Despite waning effectiveness over time, COVID-19 vaccines prevented death in children regardless of the dominant variant at the time.
  MDedge News, December 02, 2022
• Researchers Take Aim at One Vax Targeting COVID, Flu, Even RSV Companies are testing combo shots for flu and COVID, maybe even RSV in the near future, while researchers seek new vulnerable spots in viral structures to keep ahead of mutations.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2022
• COVID No Longer 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated' For the first time, the majority of people dying from COVID-19 in America have been vaccinated.
  WebMD Health News, November 28, 2022
• Fragmented Vax System Shifts PCP Role for Childhood Immunizations A new survey found that some parents are not talking with their children's doctors about vaccines, indicating a shift in the role of primary care providers when it comes to vaccine advice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• EHR Reminders Boost Well-Child Visits, Vax Rates Reminder messages sent through electronic health records systems increased vaccination rates.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Children and COVID: Weekly Cases Continue to Hold Fairly Steady The stability in weekly cases, however, comes in contrast to a very recent and considerable increase in new hospital admissions of children aged 0-17 years with confirmed COVID-19.
  MDedge News, November 15, 2022
• Experts Explain the 'Perfect Storm' of Rampant RSV and Flu Infectious disease experts share why they think more than 2 years of COVID-19 helped create a treacherous environment for unusual RSV and flu outbreaks.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• Don't Let Amoxicillin Shortage Go to Waste, Abx Stewards Say Experts are trying to view the shortage of a commonly used antibiotic as an opportunity to cut down on overuse of the drugs in general.
  Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2022
• RSV Causes 1 in 50 Deaths in Children Under Age 5: Study Researchers evaluated the health records of 9154 infants born between July 1, 2017, and July 31, 2020, who were treated at health centers across Europe.
  WebMD Health News, November 11, 2022
• Medicaid Coverage of HPV Vaccine: Implications in Dermatology Adults with dermatologic conditions such as hidradenitis suppurativa "may be at increased risk for persistent and high-risk HPV infection" and may benefit from HPV vaccination, study authors said.
  MDedge News, November 10, 2022
• World COVID-19 Death Rate Down 90%, WHO Chief Says 'We have come a long way, and this is definitely cause for optimism. But we continue to call on all governments, communities, and individuals to remain vigilant,' said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
  WebMD Health News, November 09, 2022
• Children and COVID: New Cases Increase for Second Straight Week The total for new cases reported during the week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 was 21% higher than the previous week and 31% higher than 2 weeks ago (Oct. 14-20).
  MDedge News, November 08, 2022
• Myocarditis Higher With Moderna COVID Vax, but Overall Risk Low New data show a two- to threefold higher risk for myocarditis with the Moderna mRNA vaccine vs the Pfizer vaccine, but a 'very low' overall risk with both vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2022
• Pediatric Celiac Disease Incidence Varies Across US, Europe The findings suggest that clinicians should have a low threshold for screening.
  Medscape Medical News, November 07, 2022
• CDC Warns of Early Uptick in Respiratory Disease With RSV, flu, COVID-19 and other virus activity co-circulating, experts warn of a challenging winter.
  Medscape Medical News, November 05, 2022
• COVID Bivalent Booster Better vs Omicron Subvariants: Pfizer The first human data at 1 month after a bivalent vaccine booster reveals encouraging immune response levels against recent Omicron variants.
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2022
• Children and COVID: Weekly Cases Can't Sustain Downward Trend One small milestone reached in the past week involved the proportion of all COVID cases that have occurred in children.
  Medscape Medical News, November 01, 2022
• Children and COVID: Weekly Cases Fall to Lowest Level in a Year For the sixth time in the last 7 weeks, the number of new COVID cases in children fell, with just under 23,000 reported during the week of Oct. 14-20.
  MDedge News, October 26, 2022
• IDWeek 2022 25 Years of Chickenpox Vaccine: 91 Million Cases Prevented It's now rare that children are hospitalized with chickenpox, and deaths from the infection in people younger than 20 have largely been eliminated. The economic benefit is calculated at $23 billion.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2022
• Myocarditis After COVID Shot Rare and Mild in Teens Myocarditis in adolescents after Pfizer mRNA vaccination is rare with a mild and benign course and a favorable long-term prognosis, new data from Israel confirm.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2022